Greenhab Report – December 18th

Hi Atila,

Thank you for the question. Tomorrow early we will check if restarting the thermometer gives different measurements. The ones we are recording are the whole day temperatures. Can you give some advice about the situation?

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Greenhab Officer:
Walter Calles

Environmental Control:
Heating
Cooling w/ ambient air

40% Shade Cloth on

Average Temperatures:
Low: -4.7°C
High: 37.4°C

Hours of Supplemental Light:
5

Daily Water Usage of Crops:
8 gallons

Water in Blue Tank (lbs):
85%

Times of Watering for Crops:
1220

Changes to crops:
Tomatoes still growing, the difference is clear.
Baby greens keep growing good

Narrative:
Light water to all the plants performed today. Humidity levels were a bit low by the time I checked. Tomorrow I’ll perform a heavy watering to all the crops.
Changes almost all sticky papers. Added two additional ones.
Tomatoes keep growing, is now clearer that the heating is working. Will continue to monitor them.
Baby greens growing good.
Cilantro, basil, and cilantro are in great shape. Will harvest some tomorrow.

Harvest:
NONE

Support/Supplies Needed:
Shannon gave a great suggestion to start mixing the organic materials with the soil samples. I’ll gather the first samples tomorrow to start the testing.
I’m starting with a 70% growing soil + 30% sample soil to grow some seeds. Any suggestion on which seeds should I try?

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About The MDRS

The Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert was established by the Mars Society in 2001 to better educate researchers, students and the general public about how humans can survive on the Red Planet. It is the second Mars analogue habitat after the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station was established in 2000.

Over 200 crews of six-person teams have lived in 1-2 week field visits at MDRS to simulate life on the Martian surface. Researchers and students alike have explored the Mars-like terrain in the area surrounding the station in full “spacesuits”, maintained the station’s systems, grown plants in the GreenHab to support themselves and even recycled their waste water.

Our activities at MDRS are not only about informing the public, but also conducting real research to bring humanity that much closer to the reality of human exploration on the planet Mars.

Annual field seasons at MDRS run approx. October through May. Anybody can apply to be on a crew, and we also need volunteers to help with the project.